Indie hacker: the hardest phase of indiehacking is the months after your first customers
martyamark · x · 2026-10-02
An indie developer building a Kindle app that delivers daily digests of Substacks, blogs, and news sites shares a candid reflection: it took 6 months to land the first paying customer, the second converted cold, but then two months of silence followed. He argues the hardest indiehacking phase is right after the first customers — the idea is no longer perfect in your head, momentum stalls, and self-doubt creeps in. He's choosing to keep going.
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